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title: Koshchéy leapt on the horse, caught up Iván Tsarévich. — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Koshchéy leapt on the horse, caught up Iván Tsarévich. Who acts: Koshchéy leapt. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 124

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Koshchéy leapt on the horse, caught up Iván Tsarévich.

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**Who acts:** Koshchéy leapt · **What happens:** catch up · **To what, where:** Iván, Koshchéy leapt

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Koshchéy leapt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:23:124
# text = Koshchéy leapt on the horse, caught up Iván Tsarévich.
1	Koshchéy	Koshchéy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	leapt	leapt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	Iván	Iván	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	Tsarévich	Tsarévich	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch up** | participle | Koshchéy leapt on the horse *not said here* | Iván |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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